The number of community associations in the United States grew from 10,000 in 1970 and 222,500 in 2000 to 342,000 in 2016, according to results of CAI's National and State Statistical Review for 2016. While the 2017 data are not yet available, CAI estimates the year will end with between 345,000 and 347,000 associations. Learn more

69 millionAmericans lived in common-interest communities in 2016-21.3% of the U.S. population in 2016

Community Associations Institute (CAI) is the only international organization dedicated to fostering well-governed, successful community associations. For more than 40 years, CAI has been the leader in providing education, tools and resources to the volunteer homeowner leaders who govern community associations and the professionals who support them. CAI's more than 33,000 members located in 60 local chapters include homeowners, professional managers, community management firms, and other professionals and companies that provide products and services to community associations. CAI estimates that approximately 65 million people in America make their homes in more than 330,000 homeowners associations, condominium communities, cooperatives and other planned communities. This number constitutes roughly 21 percent of the U.S. population.